Once the Knicks find a good fit and mesh with all their players, they will be a really scary team. give it time and stop expecting solid teamwork and play on day 1. Knicks will get their shit together

CosmicSpiral

United States15275 Posts

February 21 2012 03:21 GMT

#3245

On February 21 2012 12:16 Itsmedudeman wrote:
people who don't have a clue and just hopped on the lin bandwagon will blame melo. That game just showed how terrible the knicks are.

How terrible the Knicks can be. I didn't expect the lack of cohesion to be this terrible, but at least it was expected. Not even Lin can save this team single-handedly, and Lin wasn't playing like he usually does. He was driving a lot less and distributing the ball early - the problem is the Knicks are clueless with how to distribute the ball if Lin doesn't baby them every step of the way.

slyboogie

United States3423 Posts

February 21 2012 03:21 GMT

#3246

It's just that the Knicks are an inefficient offensive team. So when a team starts raining 3-pointers like the Nets, it's hard for a team that eats so many possessions like the Knicks to catch up. Just a combination of bad things today. Although, it's not great losing to a team that played back to back to back at home.

buickskylark

Canada664 Posts

February 21 2012 03:22 GMT

#3247

What a rough game. I guess they were still trying to incorporate melo into the mix. Lin looked really unsure tonight, you can see it on his face. Davis looked like Humpty Dumpty straight up. And played like one too. This team has a lot of kinks to work out.

rei

United States3594 Posts

February 21 2012 03:30 GMT

#3248

Knicks did ok this game, they just got owned by Dwill streaking. What I was looking at is the Defense during Clutch time in the 4th, which was again decent, force a lot of TOs and tough shots, but not perfect as Stoudemire was not boxing out for rebounds which led to a back breaking 3. Nets only scored 18points entire 4th. I would grade this game a B in defensive efforts. Melo is ganna get some heat for his 6 turnovers, i was cheering for him everything he drive to the basket, because that's what his team needed,and he didn't jack up much outside shots neither, it's just that his shots weren't dropping and ref not calling the foul when he got hit.

Jibba

United States22883 Posts

February 21 2012 03:33 GMT

#3249

On February 21 2012 12:21 slyboogie wrote:
It's just that the Knicks are an inefficient offensive team. So when a team starts raining 3-pointers like the Nets, it's hard for a team that eats so many possessions like the Knicks to catch up. Just a combination of bad things today. Although, it's not great losing to a team that played back to back to back at home.

Or a 10-24 team.

It was expected that DWill would have a great game (maybe not that great) but when your PF only grabs 4 rebounds in 36 minutes, that's a big problem. Getting out rebounded and outhustled by arguably the thinnest and least talented front court currently (until injuries pass) in the league is a big problem.

RonNation

United States385 Posts

February 21 2012 03:52 GMT

#3250

On February 21 2012 12:15 RastaMonsta wrote:
Alot of people will blame Melo, but give him a break hes back and rusty and had a bad injury. And ofcourse theres so much pressure for him to fit in because of the fucking linsanity and media. He will get his groove back soon. I hope

Melo's been playing like shit(and losing) all season.

rei

United States3594 Posts

February 21 2012 03:55 GMT

#3251

Is the Lakers that good inside, or is Portland sucking dick at defending? how can there be so many passes being toss inside without anyone even get a finger for a deflection.

slyboogie

United States3423 Posts

February 21 2012 03:58 GMT

#3252

Wow, Blake can not buy a call! At all. I guess he should stop playing like such a dick on the court but still.

rod-

Norway379 Posts

February 21 2012 04:25 GMT

#3253

I don't watch much basketball, but I think I could play for Portland..

Knicks looked a bit tired today, got to give creds to Dwill tho, he was mad today.

BlueRoyaL

United States2493 Posts

February 21 2012 04:26 GMT

#3254

On February 21 2012 12:55 rei wrote:
Is the Lakers that good inside, or is Portland sucking dick at defending? how can there be so many passes being toss inside without anyone even get a finger for a deflection.

it's a combination of lakers playing better than they usually do + portland playing worse than they usually do. lol. there shouldn't be this big of a point difference this early on between these two teams imo -___-

Riskr

Germany403 Posts

February 21 2012 04:32 GMT

#3255

On a sidenote:I like our chances come playoffs (Mavs),to repeat.
I think if Lamar and Vince can click till the playoffs start, we can hold off the blazing guns once more!

VENDIZ

1575 Posts

February 21 2012 04:33 GMT

#3256

Wow, Portland are stuck, just stuck.. they've been so streaky this season, such a shame - at the start of the season they were looking like contenders for a WCF spot :\

Also; took both teams over 3 minutes to get the first basket in OT (Wolves vs. Nuggets), so many contested shots missing, with all the players waiving their arms around looking for a foul on both ends - amusing :D

cLutZ

United States19574 Posts

February 21 2012 04:39 GMT

#3257

http://espn.go.com/boston/nba/story/_/id/7595636/boston-celtics-rajon-rondo-suspended-tossing-ball-ref

Apparently throwing a ball at official in chest = Stomping/kicking opposing player in the face while he is on the ground.

VENDIZ

1575 Posts

February 21 2012 04:49 GMT

#3258

On February 21 2012 13:39 cLutZ wrote:
http://espn.go.com/boston/nba/story/_/id/7595636/boston-celtics-rajon-rondo-suspended-tossing-ball-ref

Apparently throwing a ball at official in chest = Stomping/kicking opposing player in the face while he is on the ground.

Didn't he get a technical for bitching, then threw the ball at the ref? The fact that Love's incident could be debated as unintentional probably softens the punishment, whilst Rondo's episode was fully intended might make it "more severe" in a way..? Anyway, one game should've been enough